Windows even sends telemetry about its telemetry settings.
I can't see how it could avoid that, as the server could guess the telemetry settings from the list of things that each client could send but does not.
Now, AMD is using "proprietary extensions" to enable it over HDMI
The featured article uses the term "vendor specific extensions". I imagine that AMD has every right to license this extension royalty-free to HDMI display manufacturers, just as it did for the DisplayPort version of FreeSync.
In any case, Debian and its descendants (including Ubuntu and Mint) optionally collect telemetry through popularity-contest, ostensibly to help their maintainers prioritize resources. What's the difference between Popcon and Windows 10 telemetry?
Finding a doctor is something that someone in your family is more likely to know how to do than finding someone to help your organization throw Windows out the window.
if you posted the city in which you lived I bet I could ferret one out for you.
I'm not interested in you doing the work for me in the Fort Wayne, Indiana, area in particular, as much as documenting the process of finding a Linux professional so that others reading this can repeat the process in their own cities.
Pay attention to the word they
I misread they (plural) as its homophone they (animate genderless singular). I apologize. My point was that if one person on a graphic design team needs Photoshop, everyone probably does for file format round tripping reasons.
For the other 99% of the population Linux is awesome, if installed and configured by a competent Linux professional.
How would one go about finding a local GNU/Linux professional? Are Linux user groups still a thing in the fourth quarter of 2015?
Most people who "need" photoshop don't really need it. They just don't want to deal with the learning curve for a new tool, such as The GIMP.
Or, just as likely, they don't want to deal with retraining their entire team from Photoshop to GIMP so that they can collaborate in XCF instead of PSD. Besides, GIMP reportedly won't get adjustment layers any time before 3.2. (In Photoshop, an adjustment layer is a layer that makes a copy of what's below it, applies a filter, and automatically updates itself whenever anything below the layer changes.)
Given a complete reset of the UI, why the hell would it matter that the screen size has changed?
Because the total area hasn't changed. Apps include different activity layout resources for different screen sizes.
This is also the kind of decision that ties the hands of OS developers in the future.
The expectation of a constant screen size was set forth in the days of 3 and 4 inch screens. Google's Android division had already tied its hands years before the iPad was announced. As Ms. Hackborn mentioned, apps have to explicitly declare support for resizability in the manifest, and I was under the impression that the way of doing so differed from one device maker's set of Android customizations to another. Samsung has its own extension, for example. I don't know whether any such extension has since become standard in Android.
True, there are some Windows applications that won't work with Crossover, but it is highly unlikely you use those, or you never would have made the switch
In other words, "Get a Mac already." Because a lot of the popular stuff known not to work in Wine is also available native for OS X, such as Photoshop and iTunes Store.
Yes, because you need to schedule some time to take your computer to a place with unmetered Internet. Cellular and satellite ISPs tend to charge $5 to $15 per GB. Though you can undo a Windows 10 install, there's no way to undo the $15 or $45 obligation for a 3 GB download.
One of the most important differences between Remix OS and stock Android is that you don’t need to run all of your apps in full-screen windows. There are Windows-like minimize, resize, and close buttons in the upper right corner of app windows, and if you tap the minimize button in many apps, they’ll automatically shrink to phone-sized windows.
I also see Gapps in the screenshots, meaning either Google somehow approved this or this product is infringing copyright in the Gapps. I'll assume good faith and assume the former. What got Google to change its mind and allow resizing apps after installation, which was previously forbidden?
ironically Hangouts (an IM app - exactly the kind of thing you want to have in a small window) - didn't work at all.
That's because Google was for a long time adamant about running everything maximized. At one time, the Android CDD specified that the screen size that the OS presents to an app wasn't ever allowed to change after installation. This means all resizing to a window had to be zoom-based which isn't very good for text readability. Google even threatened to stop tolerating installation of Google Play Services and Store on CyanogenMod if the latter were to implement the Cornerstone window manager. (I can dig up citations if you want.)
I'm more bothered about how horrendous typical desktop features like cut-and-paste seem to be when translated to mobile and then back again via Android.
Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V on a Bluetooth keyboard work well in Android on my Nexus 7 (2012) tablet. The most painful part of copying text around is selecting it with a finger, but a mouse solves that.
Also why the f--- are they closing Windows 10? The utter lack of imagination the F/OSS community can have on occasion is staggering.
By "closing" do you mean "cloning"? If so, how else would a non-full-screen version of the Android app launcher look?
A set-top box for grandma where she can use the same OS on her TV that she already has on her phone?
Answer this question from grandma: "Why does the calculator app take up the whole screen? I want to see the figures that I'm adding up." It's different with a phone, where the full-screen window management policy actually works well for what a 5" screen is capable of.
In Android, can you have a browser in one half of the screen and e-mail in the other half so you can see the page you're referring to while you write an e-mail about it? Or since when has Android solved the problem of, say, the the full-screen calculator app?
Development of peripheral hardware by hobbyists, for one. Windows already requires all kernel-mode drivers to be digitally signed with a certificate issued by a CA that Microsoft trusts. And in the run up to the release of Windows 10, Microsoft has announced that Windows will soon require drivers to be signed with an EV certificate, which only an established company can obtain. No, "Test Mode" doesn't help a hobbyist who intends to actually sell the hardware to other hobbyists at low volume.
My guess as to why not to exempt electric cars is twofold. For one thing, EVs do not decrease pollution but instead shift it to coal power plants, though that might not apply quite as much if India goes solar. For another, EVs still increase the number of cars on the road, which causes legacy cars to have to idle at intersections just as long.
I took it as "How does this hoy no circula regime being implemented in an India city compare to hoy no circula regimes already introduced in cities in other countries?"
Even free public transit doesn't help if it doesn't run near your home or work, or if you have to be to work at night or on Sunday when the buses don't run.
So does it boil down to Let's Encrypt being a protection against DNS compromises?
Until all domains' DNS servers are upgraded to support DNSSEC and all web browsers are upgraded to support DANE, half of what a DV cert does is defend against DNS spoofing on a user's first visit. The other half is a protection against transparent proxying.
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Windows even sends telemetry about its telemetry settings.
I can't see how it could avoid that, as the server could guess the telemetry settings from the list of things that each client could send but does not.
Now, AMD is using "proprietary extensions" to enable it over HDMI
The featured article uses the term "vendor specific extensions". I imagine that AMD has every right to license this extension royalty-free to HDMI display manufacturers, just as it did for the DisplayPort version of FreeSync.
Yet the other Creative Labs is still up.
For a moment, I thought "I knew they bought Oculus, but I didn't know about Sound Blaster." Then I read the article.
And I'd bet Mint got a big boost from Amazongate.
In any case, Debian and its descendants (including Ubuntu and Mint) optionally collect telemetry through popularity-contest, ostensibly to help their maintainers prioritize resources. What's the difference between Popcon and Windows 10 telemetry?
How would you find a doctor?
Finding a doctor is something that someone in your family is more likely to know how to do than finding someone to help your organization throw Windows out the window.
if you posted the city in which you lived I bet I could ferret one out for you.
I'm not interested in you doing the work for me in the Fort Wayne, Indiana, area in particular, as much as documenting the process of finding a Linux professional so that others reading this can repeat the process in their own cities.
Pay attention to the word they
I misread they (plural) as its homophone they (animate genderless singular). I apologize. My point was that if one person on a graphic design team needs Photoshop, everyone probably does for file format round tripping reasons.
For the other 99% of the population Linux is awesome, if installed and configured by a competent Linux professional.
How would one go about finding a local GNU/Linux professional? Are Linux user groups still a thing in the fourth quarter of 2015?
Most people who "need" photoshop don't really need it. They just don't want to deal with the learning curve for a new tool, such as The GIMP.
Or, just as likely, they don't want to deal with retraining their entire team from Photoshop to GIMP so that they can collaborate in XCF instead of PSD. Besides, GIMP reportedly won't get adjustment layers any time before 3.2. (In Photoshop, an adjustment layer is a layer that makes a copy of what's below it, applies a filter, and automatically updates itself whenever anything below the layer changes.)
Given a complete reset of the UI, why the hell would it matter that the screen size has changed?
Because the total area hasn't changed. Apps include different activity layout resources for different screen sizes.
This is also the kind of decision that ties the hands of OS developers in the future.
The expectation of a constant screen size was set forth in the days of 3 and 4 inch screens. Google's Android division had already tied its hands years before the iPad was announced. As Ms. Hackborn mentioned, apps have to explicitly declare support for resizability in the manifest, and I was under the impression that the way of doing so differed from one device maker's set of Android customizations to another. Samsung has its own extension, for example. I don't know whether any such extension has since become standard in Android.
The Android Compatibility Definition (CDD) as of about a year ago stated: "Devices MUST NOT change their reported screen size at any time." Dianne Hackborn of Google explained how Cornerstone broke the CDD.
Which *BSD or Linux monetizes the users' personal information by sending it to 100+ domains?
Perhaps not 100, but anyone who can remember the Ubuntu Unity Amazon shopping lens and related controversies knows that the GNU/Linux market is not entirely free of privacy intrusions.
True, there are some Windows applications that won't work with Crossover, but it is highly unlikely you use those, or you never would have made the switch
In other words, "Get a Mac already." Because a lot of the popular stuff known not to work in Wine is also available native for OS X, such as Photoshop and iTunes Store.
Any reason I should stop MS from upgrading me?
Yes, because you need to schedule some time to take your computer to a place with unmetered Internet. Cellular and satellite ISPs tend to charge $5 to $15 per GB. Though you can undo a Windows 10 install, there's no way to undo the $15 or $45 obligation for a 3 GB download.
Ads in the Start menu
Right click and remove them.
Telemetry
That can be minimized. Product activation and Windows Update themselves are forms of telemetry.
possible hardware incompatibilities?
The NVIDIA nForce incompatibility that the GWX app detected is working to my advantage, as it's keeping the Windows 10 installer from even started.
From the article:
I also see Gapps in the screenshots, meaning either Google somehow approved this or this product is infringing copyright in the Gapps. I'll assume good faith and assume the former. What got Google to change its mind and allow resizing apps after installation, which was previously forbidden?
ironically Hangouts (an IM app - exactly the kind of thing you want to have in a small window) - didn't work at all.
That's because Google was for a long time adamant about running everything maximized. At one time, the Android CDD specified that the screen size that the OS presents to an app wasn't ever allowed to change after installation. This means all resizing to a window had to be zoom-based which isn't very good for text readability. Google even threatened to stop tolerating installation of Google Play Services and Store on CyanogenMod if the latter were to implement the Cornerstone window manager. (I can dig up citations if you want.)
I'm more bothered about how horrendous typical desktop features like cut-and-paste seem to be when translated to mobile and then back again via Android.
Ctrl+X and Ctrl+V on a Bluetooth keyboard work well in Android on my Nexus 7 (2012) tablet. The most painful part of copying text around is selecting it with a finger, but a mouse solves that.
Also why the f--- are they closing Windows 10? The utter lack of imagination the F/OSS community can have on occasion is staggering.
By "closing" do you mean "cloning"? If so, how else would a non-full-screen version of the Android app launcher look?
A set-top box for grandma where she can use the same OS on her TV that she already has on her phone?
Answer this question from grandma: "Why does the calculator app take up the whole screen? I want to see the figures that I'm adding up." It's different with a phone, where the full-screen window management policy actually works well for what a 5" screen is capable of.
In Android, can you have a browser in one half of the screen and e-mail in the other half so you can see the page you're referring to while you write an e-mail about it? Or since when has Android solved the problem of, say, the the full-screen calculator app?
Development of peripheral hardware by hobbyists, for one. Windows already requires all kernel-mode drivers to be digitally signed with a certificate issued by a CA that Microsoft trusts. And in the run up to the release of Windows 10, Microsoft has announced that Windows will soon require drivers to be signed with an EV certificate, which only an established company can obtain. No, "Test Mode" doesn't help a hobbyist who intends to actually sell the hardware to other hobbyists at low volume.
so just let Google back up your phone
Wouldn't this likely cause you to run out of space on your Google drive?
I know that an X-Wing banking into a turn makes no sense in terms of real space flight.
It does when the standard training includes maneuvers that are a compromise between atmospheric and non-atmospheric dogfighting.
The unlocked bootloader method will wipe your device, and a lot of people don't already have good backup software installed.
My guess as to why not to exempt electric cars is twofold. For one thing, EVs do not decrease pollution but instead shift it to coal power plants, though that might not apply quite as much if India goes solar. For another, EVs still increase the number of cars on the road, which causes legacy cars to have to idle at intersections just as long.
I think you may have your countries confused.
I took it as "How does this hoy no circula regime being implemented in an India city compare to hoy no circula regimes already introduced in cities in other countries?"
and use it to make public transit free.
Even free public transit doesn't help if it doesn't run near your home or work, or if you have to be to work at night or on Sunday when the buses don't run.
So does it boil down to Let's Encrypt being a protection against DNS compromises?
Until all domains' DNS servers are upgraded to support DNSSEC and all web browsers are upgraded to support DANE, half of what a DV cert does is defend against DNS spoofing on a user's first visit. The other half is a protection against transparent proxying.
Cores: the number of compute cores available. I think this is pretty clear.
Not on AMD it isn't. The cores of its processors since Bulldozer are sort of a hybrid between actual cores and SMT thread states.